Feck! Arse! LOOOOK!

[Lihllvmch]

hahaha way trippy...

[Viscera Eyes]

hahahahaha.

[Alexis]

This is the photographer - he's taken some pretty good ones:

www.jamesminchin.com/

[ruby]

I'm in great shock.

1. Wow why the smashing bulb? good, but the title of their new album matched the brown cover (looked like an old bible), so the light bulb to me makes no sense.

2. They look cold, they need hot water bottles and a good cup of tea, for a nice warm-up but they look very fine indeed

3. I like the photo angles

4. the spooky house is spooky

5. yes the font is rather dull

6. its the first time i have seen Nathan is uber-tight jeans - he looks HOT!!

[Good Lord Its Me Jane]

The light bulb doesn't bother me I like it, its a challenge an impossible shot. I can sit and hapily muse on ways to do it. Arial isn't just dull its offensive!

[ruby]

ahhh who knows maybe this is also temporary

[Good Lord Its Me Jane]

Well I hope so, I suppose they might not want the proper cover out there cos really anyone with a printer and cD burner could churn out fakes in bulk before the release date for profit.

[Lihllvmch]

lalaloveyou said:

This is the photographer - he's taken some pretty good ones:

www.jamesminchin.com/

very good pictures!!

[ruby]

Have you ever noticed how Matt, always poses with his arm, its the same in nearly all the recent photos

[nadius]

Yeah..! This is so much much better than the blueish cover art!!! I love this one! And the photographies are great!

[H'less Sara]

bunnies said:

The light bulb doesn't bother me I like it, its a challenge an impossible shot. I can sit and hapily muse on ways to do it. [color=Blue]Arial isn't just dull its offensive

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Agreed!!!!

[loudfrancis]

I downloaded the Bio if anyone's interested...

Bare chested Nathan?!

******************************************************

KINGS OF LEON

Because Of The Times

Caleb Followill — lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Jared Followill — bass
Matthew Followill — lead guitar
Nathan Followill — drums


“I think people tend to expect a certain sound from us,” says Kings of Leon’s drummer Nathan Followill, “but on this record, we tried to throw them for a loop.”
Indeed, it’s not business as usual on the Nashville-based quartet’s ambitious, eclectic new album Because Of The Times. Where Kings of Leon’s last release, 2005’s Aha Shake Heartbreak, was “a fuzz-encrusted rocket of controlled violence,” as Rolling Stone put it, packed with emphatic two-minute bursts of raunchy guitars, brawny drums, and growled vocals, Because Of The Times finds the Followills (brothers Nathan, Caleb, and Jared, and their first cousin Matthew) opening up, relaxing the rules, and reveling in the joys of their newfound musical freedom.
“We took the limitations off of ourselves,” says frontman/rhythm guitarist Caleb. “We went into the studio with an open mind, thinking let’s do whatever it takes to get these songs to the next level. Because we really have a lot of music inside of us and a lot of different places we can go.”
It would have been easy for Kings of Leon to make Aha Shake Part II and call it a day. That album (along with its predecessor, 2003’s Youth and Young Manhood) transformed these sons of a Pentecostal minister, who grew up traveling with the preacher around the rural Deep South, into indie stars in the U.S. and major rock stars in the UK. In 2005, Harp magazine called Kings of Leon “the freshest breeze to blow through the modern music scene since punk rock turned everything upside down and inside out in the late ’70s.”
But instead of resting on their rep, the guys chose to challenge themselves. “We weren’t scared to try anything,” Nathan says. “I think that’s the difference between this album and the last. We weren’t timid at all. Every song showed us something we had inside of ourselves that we didn’t know existed, which enabled us to be even bolder on the next song.”
To that end, Because Of The Times (the title refers to an annual preachers’ conference the boys attended growing up) contains Kings of Leon’s first-ever album track that clocks in at longer than five minutes (“Knocked Up”), the first song with vocal effects (“On Call”), and the first one you could verifiably call an arena-rock anthem (“Black Thumbnail”). Then there’s the breakneck “McFearless,” the chiming “Ragoo,” the scuzzy “Charmer,” and the waltzing “The Runner” — a song so pretty, it’s damn near a lullaby. “I can sing pretty if I want to sing pretty,” says Caleb, whose slurry Southern cadences were once a hallmark of the band’s sound.
Perhaps because it was the first album the band have made in which they entered the studio knowing exactly how they wanted it to sound, Because Of The Times is Kings of Leon’s most diverse collection yet. Brimming with ideas, it represents a huge leap forward both in songwriting and musical prowess. Though Caleb writes the majority of the lyrics, “this was the first album where all four band members contributed equally and had a say so in every song,” Nathan says. Adds Caleb: “because we were trying to make a different-sounding record, we had to sit back and listen to each other a little more.”
To shepherd them through the process, the Followills turned to their long-time producers Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Ben Kweller) and Angelo Patraglia. “Ethan, man, he knows how to get it out of you — how to get you to perform at your highest level,” Nathan says. “And Angelo wants you to perform at your highest level, but he wants you to have fun while you’re doing it because that comes across in the recording. He’s the one that gets us to step out on a limb and try something that we’d never think of trying in a million years. It’s a great balance.”
This time around, the band told Johns and Petraglia that they wanted to take a more proactive role in the recording process. “We wanted to go for the sounds that we were hearing in our heads,” Nathan explains, “because your record represents you as a band. But when you’re young, as we were when we made our first two albums, we didn’t know that.” However, there’s nothing like touring with consummate pros like U2 (in 2005) and Bob Dylan and Pearl Jam (in 2006), that’ll force a young band to grow up fast.
“On the last night of the Dylan tour,” Caleb says, “Dylan came into our dressing room and he says [here Caleb affects Dylan’s husky rasp:] ‘What’s that last song you guys played?’ And I said, ‘Uh, it’s called ‘Trani’ . And Dylan goes, ‘That’s a hell of a song.’ “I think that was pretty much the biggest thrill of my entire life.”
So where does one go from there? On tour, of course. “That’s our thing,” Nathan says. “We’re a live band, that’s our bread and butter. We like to get up there and put on a good show. We start rehearsing tomorrow and I’m sure we’ll be kicking ourselves in the ass for recording such hard album parts that we’re going to have to play live every night.” He pauses, then says brightly: “But I’m going to have some huge arm and leg muscles and a bare chest!”

[mangoturtles]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[H'less Sara]

Awwww he really DOES sing pretty!!!

[csolis]

i really like the album cover, it looks really cool, i just wonder what the meaning behing it is.

omg and in one of the pics, the one where theyre all looking down, Jared is wearing skinny jeans w/ high tops!!!!! that how i wear mine sometimes and i feel like its not right, but if he does it then it definately is right, lol
they all look so good in the pics, caleb not so much but he still looks fucking hot!!!

[evilincarnate]

I like trippy!

And I LOVE the album cover, much better than the brown one. It's so simple and crisp, and very eye catching. I'm not sure it would have matched their musical style from the last two albums, but since I feel like this album deviates more from the "country" they are constantly compared with, such a fresh...almost urban photograph is a good fit.

[evilincarnate]

And that first image is literally identical to the promo shot for The Strokes last album (as almost everyone else has pointed out)...from the thumbnail I assumed it was before I realized that there was only four of them.

And in 6 & 7, Caleb's long tweed jacket is great, haha.

[AccuratePassion]

Oh thank jebus. I am sooo glad they changed the cover. The other one was freakin horrible. Uh, I like the whole consistency they have been using with the black and white color for covers as well.

[monikaelizabethpar]

super!!!!!

[milacamila]

Hey!!! Look what I found!!!! I think they've changed the single cover too...



PS: the item description:

7"/ CD
Tracklisting:
1. On Call
2. My Third House - Non-Album Bonus Recording